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  • Short- and long-term allocation of power in liberalized electricity markets

    Discussion Papers no. 612

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    The experience of liberalized electricity markets' ability to allocate scarce energy resources has been mixed. In this paper, we analyze how liberalized markets allocate power in the short and long run through the interaction between the ...

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  • Modelling "crime-proneness"

    Discussion Papers no. 611

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    In the criminal career literature, the individual-level age-crime relationship is commonly modelled using generalized linear mixed models, where between-individual heterogeneity is then handled through specifying random effect(s) with som...

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  • Good girl-bad boy

    Discussion Papers no. 609

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    Environmental policy analyses often draw on stated preferences, with most humans having strong preferences with respect to how we view ourselves and how we would like others to perceive us. This may create systematic differences between r...

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  • Promoting renewables and discouraging fossil energy consumption in the European Union

    Discussion Papers no. 610

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    The European Union (EU) identified some positive and negative externalities related to energy production and consumption when adopting its Renewable Energy and Climate Change Package. Given these externalities, we derive the optimal combi...

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  • Survey sampling

    Discussion Papers no. 608

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    The design-approach is evaluated, using a likelihood approach to survey sampling. It is argued that a model-based approach is unavoidable from a scientific point of view. Estimating population quantities can then be regarded as a predicti...

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  • Untraditional couples in a neo-traditional setting

    Discussion Papers no. 607

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    An equal division of paid and unpaid work is a central political ambition in Norway. Yet, couples' division of paid work has been less studied than their division of unpaid work. This paper shows that women seldom work more than their par...

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  • Incentives to invest in abatement technology

    Discussion Papers no. 606

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    In the longer run, effects on R&D and the implementation of advanced abatement technology may be at least as important as short-run cost effectiveness when we evaluate public environmental policy. In this paper, we show that the number of...

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  • Trade liberalisation and import price behaviour

    Discussion Papers no. 605

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    Previous studies on the relationship between exchange rates and traded goods prices typically find evidence of incomplete pass-through, usually explained by pricing-to-market behaviour. Although economic theory predicts that incomplete pa...

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  • Self-delusion in the pursuit of happiness

    Discussion Papers no. 604

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    The paper explores how repeated revisions of consumption plans increase long-run utility. If agents value present anticipations of future consumption, some revisions may be viewed as a benign form of self-delusion. We consider a minimal g...

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  • Does parental income matter for onset of offending?

    Discussion Papers no. 588

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    Although several established theories of crime often suggest an association between socio-economic background and youth criminal involvement, the empirical evidence for such claims diverges considerably. The aim of this paper is to re-inv...

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  • Carbon capture and storage technologies in the European power market

    Discussion Papers no. 603

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    We examine the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies in the European electricity markets, assessing whether CCS technologies will reduce carbon emissions substantially in the absence of investment subsidies, and how t...

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  • Part-time work, underemployment and gender

    Discussion Papers no. 602

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    The article analyses part-time work, both so-called voluntary and involuntary, in a gender perspective and discusses under what conditions women and men work part-time. The discussion is based on logistic regression models, including huma...

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  • Indirect inference methods for stochastic volatility models based on non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes

    Discussion Papers no. 601

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  • Non-parametric identification of the mixed proportional hazards model with interval-censored durations

    Discussion Papers no. 600

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    This note presents identication results for the mixed proportional hazards model when duration data are interval-censored. Earlier positive results on identication under intervalcensoring require both parametric specication on how covaria...

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  • On the measurement of environmental taxes

    Discussion Papers no. 599

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